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Definition of Mappists
1. mappist [n] - See also: mappist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mappists
Literary usage of Mappists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1885)
"Other mappists turn some of the upper rivers into the Mekhong; and there is almost
no permutation these few rivers are capable of that has not been ..."
2. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"... Gold Lace Embroiderers, Opticians, Buglers, Tent-makers, Banner-weavers,
Powder-mixers, Crutches and Cork Limb Manufacturers, Balloonists, mappists, ..."
3. The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and by Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Odet de La Noue, Henry Smith (1880)
"... Which hath, by Test of Art's Experiments, More then nine thousand leagues
Circumference. 310 Yet, learned mappists, on a Paper small, ..."
4. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer: The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco by Francisco Tomás Hermenegildo Garcés (1900)
"Among the changes in names rung by mappists upon Kino of 1701 may be noted the "
Tabula California Anno 1702," whereon ..."
5. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"The principal stream on the right passed to-day is one called Child's, or Weeping
Child, or Sleeping Child, to which different mappists play wet-nurse at ..."
6. Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved by F. A. Wilson, Alfred Bate Richards (1850)
"Supposing all these lakes and rivers to have been correctly delineated by the
mappists, we would now confidently ask—should they indeed prove navigable, ..."
7. Tibet and the Tibetans by Graham Sandberg (1906)
"The Mongol appellations signify "Little Harvest Lake" and " Big Harvest Lake ";
and doubtless the Jesuit mappists of the Chinese Survey denoted them by ..."
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